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2005-01-17 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-01-17 12:08:23 PM|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Lol, DB! Excellent commentray, heh...

Poor Bill, suffering from too much exposure to his own opinions, ass-kissing from his coterie of followers, and endlessly riding the Moonbat CockTail Circuitâ¢. He'll never get it, because he never ventures outside the Media Bubbleâ¢.

Who was it (and where was the link?) that posted a Chris Matthews quote, where he momentarily pulled his head out of his ass, about the Blue Staters' real failure in this election year is that they all live in RustCoast / LeftCoast Media Centers and only listen to / interact with others who, obviously, support their POV - whereas the Red Staters out in flyover country have perspective and realize just how far out of tune the MSM is, due to this circle-jerk blindness?

I would dearly appreciate the RB poster to let me know - so I can credit them and plagiarize, heh.

Posted by .com 2005-01-17 2:46:34 PM|| 2005-01-17 2:46:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 our mission to act as counterweight to government power

Same mission statement as for Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally, and Lord Haha during WWII. First step in recovery is to acknowledge you do work for the enemy during time of war.

Posted by Don 2005-01-17 3:32:39 PM|| 2005-01-17 3:32:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 What the NYT, CNN, BBC, and the rest of 'old media' forget is that 'Freedom of the Press' is all well and good but along with any freedom comes sober responsibility. In this case to be fair, balanced, responsible, unbiased, and above all merely an 'observer' and not a participant. Dan Rather and Maples violated that trust then the became 'participants' in the election and used fake documents to get Kerry Elected (and no, I dont think Dan and Mapes are stupid enough *not* to know they were fake).

Another example is when the MSM 'participated' in the murder and rape of those school children in Russa by giving the Islamist 'cover' for their evil deeds and protraying them as 'freedom fighters'....

No Bill, your mission is to report the news.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-01-17 3:40:40 PM|| 2005-01-17 3:40:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 I quit at "quality media".

Posted by tu3031 2005-01-17 5:21:53 PM|| 2005-01-17 5:21:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 On national or global events, however, the news consumer needs trained reporters on the scene to transmit facts and trustworthy editors to judge significance.

The blogosphere has yet to blow holes in this last redoubt-- mainly because foreign bloggers have yet to catch up-- but the fact is that most NYT reporting from overseas sucks. NYT journos in Russia typically don't know the language, don't have any sources inside the institutions that matter, ie the security services and their allies in corrupt resource-trading outfits, and therefore end up relying again and again on spin from the local Carnegie Endowment office director or other think tankers based in the US. I'd be surprised if NYT coverage of Japan or Pakistan or China or Brazil is any better.

This too shall fall.

Posted by lex 2005-01-17 10:15:43 PM|| 2005-01-17 10:15:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 On national or global events, however, the news consumer needs trained reporters on the scene to transmit facts and trustworthy editors to judge significance.

Yeah..and Gutenberg was a hack because the masses can't read and even if they can, they need someone to tell them what they are reading. True for many, but not for most.

Posted by 2b 2005-01-17 10:47:47 PM|| 2005-01-17 10:47:47 PM|| Front Page Top